The Comedy of Errors (Folio 1, 1623)

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100 The Comedie of Errors.

 1889And we shall make full satisfaction.
 1890Thirtie three yeares haue I but gone in trauaile
 1891Of you my sonnes, and till this present houre
 1892My heauie burthen are deliuered:
 1893The Duke my husband, and my children both,
 1894And you the Kalenders of their Natiuity,
 1895Go to a Gossips feast, and go with mee,
 1896After so long greefe such Natiuitie.
 1897Duke. With all my heart, Ile Gossip at this feast.
 
 1898	Exeunt omnes. Manet the two Dromio's and
 1899two Brothers.
 1900S.Dro. Mast[er]. shall I fetch your stuffe from shipbord?
 1901E.An.  Dromio, what stuffe of mine hast thou imbarkt
 1902S.Dro. Your goods that lay at host sir in the Centaur.
 1903S.Ant. He speakes to me, I am your master  Dromio.
 

 1904Come go with vs, wee'l looke to that anon,
 1905Embrace thy brother there, reioyce with him.	  Exit
 1906S.Dro. There is a fat friend at your masters house,
 1907That kitchin'd me for you to day at dinner:
 1908She now shall be my sister, not my wife,
 1909E.D. Me thinks you are my glasse, & not my brother:
 1910I see by you, I am a sweet-fac'd youth,
 1911Will you walke in to see their gossipping?
 1912S.Dro. Not I sir, you are my elder.
 1913E.Dro. That's a question, how shall we trie it.
 1914S.Dro. Wee'l draw Cuts for the Signior, till then,
 1915lead thou first.
 1916E.Dro. Nay then thus:
 1917We came into the world like brother and brother:
 1918And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
 1919	 Exeunt.
 
 
 
 
 1920FINIS.
 

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